He’s one of the most organized people around, so it was extremely atypical when on Feb. 25 he was late to the Wild’s chartered flight to Winnipeg because he had to return home to retrieve his forgotten passport.

When Zucker finally got to the airport and hustled onto the plane, he was greeted by a sarcastic round of applause from his teammates.

Zucker was just glad they were still his teammates.

A month earlier, Nino Niederreiter was traded to Carolina. Five days earlier, Charlie Coyle, his closest friend on the team and the best man at his wedding, was traded to Boston. And that very day, Mikael Granlund was traded to Nashville.

Three fellow 2010 draft picks, three guys pretty much joined at Zucker’s hip ever since Niederreiter arrived in Minnesota following a 2013 trade with the Islanders.

Zucker — the Las Vegas native who married a Minnesotan, has maintained his desire...